Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-07-08
General Vews.
DOMESTIC,

There were five fatal cases of sunstroke
in Boston on Sunday.
President Cleveland, it is said, has de-
cided to go South next October.
The assessed v%alution of real estate in
New York is S1,254,4 91 $40.
The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominate
ed Morris Sharp for governor.
The death rate in New York is very
high. Wednesday Dos deaths were record
ed.
The Yale crew o the boat race at
New London, Friday, by five lengths
over the Harvards.
The President has %pardoned the noted
forger, Thomas Ballard. who is now a
broken-down old man.
There were twenty-four fire alarms in
Boston for the twenty-four hours end
ing at midnight Monday.
\ Washington paper gives currency to
a rumor that Secretary Endicott will
soon resign from the cabinet.
Eleven hundred people in Clarendon.
Pa, were made homeless by a fire
Monday night which DESTROYED nearly
the entire town.
Henry George maintains that DR.. Nc
Glynn has committed no offence which
renders him liable to accommodation
in refusing to go to Rome.
The immigration at Castle Garden.
New York, from January | to July | was
2l2.655, an increase of SO, 94S over the
number for the same period in 1ss6.
Two million dollars worth of fire.
works was prematurely exploded in a
New York mandatory Saturday after
noon. Two men persisted in the fire.
"Alcyone," the $4,000 stallion be-
longing to the Elizur Smith stock farm.
Great Darlington. Mass, died Monday
from inflammation of the the bowels.
Benedickt krebs. a Swede who had es-
capped from an Illinois lunatic ASYLUM.
was arrested in Washington Saturday
for threatening to shoot the President.
Arson p. Morrill,, Names venerable
eN-g0vernor,died at Augusta at II o'clock
Monday morning. He became i'll a week
ago and had been unconscious for several
days.
The statement made at Baltimore by
DR.. McGlynn to the effect that the Pope
intended to establish a papal nuncio at
Washington is emphatically contradicted
by Cardinal Gibbons.
Mrs. August Belder of Mt. Washington
in Pittsburg. Pa. left home for a few
moments and returned to find that three
of her children had been fatally burned
by an explosion of a can of oil.
a severe drouth prevails in northern
Illinois and Wisconsin. doing great dam
age to crops and causing great suffering
among the people. who are generally be-
ginning to hold prayer-meetings for rain.
The thirteen-year-old son OF Truman
Stupplebeen of Client, y. Y. was
drowned the other day while bathing.
When the news was known to Mrs. Link.
All aged grandmother of the boy, she fell
from her chair dead.
Senator Cullom in a Fourth of July
Grafton at Saybrook. H., said this coun-
try must not be the dumping ground for
paupers aud criminals of other lands.
The bars should be put up and fastened
against such elements.
Miss Van Lew, a Virginia lady who
rendered the Union armies very valuable
service during the war and who has held
a $1,000 clerkship in the post-office de-
partment at Washington for some years,
has been degraded by the present admin
istration to the laborers' roll.
During the month of June the circula-
ton of standard silver dollars increased
ss4,Gs7 and the gold holdings of the
treasury increased S207 1896. The increase
of silver circulation during the year was
81 1886 900 and the increase in the gold
holdings during the same time was ST.
94G. 900.
Pickett's renowned division. which
fought so desperately at Gettysburg. visit
ed that memorable field on saturday and
was warmly welcomed by the Philadel-
phia brigade. Speeches were made by
a number of prominent soldiers and let
tiers We're read from President Cleveland
and Senator sherman.
John Coody, working for a man named
Lumpkins in Stone county, Ark, ran off
with the pretty Miss Elizabeth Lumpkins
last week. The girls father and brother
went in pursuit and killed Coody in the
Indian territory, but not until he had
killed the brother. The hayward girl
returned with her father.
Mlnnesota's new high license liquor
law went into effect July l. Licenses in
cities of 10000 or more people cost $1,000